This book is part of a broad examination of Confucianism and its implications for modernization of the Confucian regions (covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore). It is mainly concerned with the industrialization and...

Intro -- Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Communism as an Economic and Societal System in the Twentieth Century -- 1.1. The theoretical model of the command economy and society -- 1.2. The historical evolution of Soviet communism --...

A privilege of the power elite -- The democratization of investment -- Retirement and its funding -- New clients and new investments -- Fraud, market manipulation and insider trading -- Progress in managing cyclical crises -- The emergence of investment theory -- More new investment forms --...